I noticed that the "Art, Artists & Comic Books" section of the boards got blasted by SPAM much more than any other and wondered if the title somehow attracted SPAM bots. So I changed the name to see if it makes a difference.

Still the same place. Continue to discuss Art, Artists, and Comic Books here.

"The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own." -- Gary Gygax"Don't ask me what you need to hit. Just roll the die and I will let you know!" -- Dave Arneson

As a FYI, it's worked but not as much as I had hoped. In the last day or so instead of 20+ SPAM messages I've been deleting 8-10 from this section. I'm not sure that's even a large enough data sample from which to draw a conclusion. Maybe the SPAM dudes are on holiday, or something.

"The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own." -- Gary Gygax"Don't ask me what you need to hit. Just roll the die and I will let you know!" -- Dave Arneson

"The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own." -- Gary Gygax"Don't ask me what you need to hit. Just roll the die and I will let you know!" -- Dave Arneson

This AM I killed forty spam threads. I think that this is a one-time record for me. (I killed 24 yesterday.) In addition, there were another 6 posts imbedded in other threads.

It's a good thing that the boards are a little quiet at the moment. Six weeks ago we had so many new members posting daily that I had to take a lot of time seperating the good from the bad. Now there are hardly any newbies and most of the spam is easy to spot and flush.

"The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own." -- Gary Gygax"Don't ask me what you need to hit. Just roll the die and I will let you know!" -- Dave Arneson

"The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own." -- Gary Gygax"Don't ask me what you need to hit. Just roll the die and I will let you know!" -- Dave Arneson

"The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own." -- Gary Gygax"Don't ask me what you need to hit. Just roll the die and I will let you know!" -- Dave Arneson

"The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own." -- Gary Gygax"Don't ask me what you need to hit. Just roll the die and I will let you know!" -- Dave Arneson

"The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own." -- Gary Gygax"Don't ask me what you need to hit. Just roll the die and I will let you know!" -- Dave Arneson

I'd purge everyone who has not posted, and spam posts don't count, and have been on the forum board rolls for more than four months.

That's a good point. (Actually, if they post SPAM that gets deleted, their post count goes back to zero. Only approved posts count so it should be easy to identify posters with zero posts. The question is how easy it is to find them in the Moderator screens....)

"The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own." -- Gary Gygax"Don't ask me what you need to hit. Just roll the die and I will let you know!" -- Dave Arneson

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